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3 days ago+48 48 0Expert Explains Why Whales Often Wear Hats Made of Seaweed
If a whale comes across a patch of kelp, it may well start playing with it. This practice may also be useful to rid whales of unwanted passengers.
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3 days ago+19 19 0Elon Fires Half Of ExTwitter’s Election Integrity Team, Because A Manager Liked A Tweet Calling Him A Fucking Dipshit
Aaron Rodericks, co-lead of the department, was targeted in a right-wing harassment campaign after trying to hire new employees to combat political misinformation
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4 days ago+39 39 0We May Have Been Completely Wrong About The Origins of Syphilis in Europe
When Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and his Spanish troops returned to Europe from the Americas in the late 15th century, they notoriously brought back the deadly pathogen responsible for syphilis.
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4 days ago+15 15 0Commented in It Looks Like a Reboot of 'The Office' Is On the Way
146 days of writers' strikes and we get a reboot of the office?
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4 days ago+19 19 0Commented in Elon Musk Reportedly Lied About How Many Monkeys His Neuralink Implant Killed
Where people go back to the past to right wrongs.
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4 days ago+18 18 0Commented in Elon Musk Reportedly Lied About How Many Monkeys His Neuralink Implant Killed
A movie about time travel.
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4 days ago+17 17 0Commented in Elon Musk Reportedly Lied About How Many Monkeys His Neuralink Implant Killed
Good name for a movie.
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4 days ago+16 16 0Commented in Elon Musk Reportedly Lied About How Many Monkeys His Neuralink Implant Killed
12 Monkeys.
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5 days ago+29 29 0Nitazenes: synthetic opioids more deadly than fentanyl are starting to turn up in overdose cases
Nitazenes were developed as a powerful class of painkiller in the 1950s, but they were abandoned – until now.
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7 days ago+49 49 0Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon
Fertile soil known as Amazonian dark earth is central to the debate over the size and ecological impact of ancient human populations in the Amazon. Dark earth is typically associated with human occupation, but it is uncertain whether it was created i ...
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7 days ago+50 50 0Pluralistic: Apple screwed us on right to repair (again)
When people can repair their devices, they don't buy new ones. When people don't buy new devices, Apple doesn't sell them new devices.
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8 days ago+49 49 0How thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making
Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories
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9 days ago+21 21 0Commented in AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To)
I love this quote:
“If I want to write a play, I don't read every play ever written and then just kind of like average them together,”
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9 days ago+36 36 0Amazing Discovery Reveals Why You Didn't Get Your Dad's Mitochondria
Virtually every animal on Earth can thank their mother for the energy that fuels each of their cells.
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11 days ago+23 23 0Colonists upended Aboriginal farming, growing grain and running sheep on rich yamfields, and cattle on arid grainlands
Newcomers in Australia found and took rich pastures made by Aboriginal fire. Without fire, pastures would revert to forest or scrub.
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12 days ago+30 30 0Excluding trans women in women’s chess makes you a pawn of the patriarchy
Wait a bit, chess has separate competitions for men and women? Why? – The world’s top chess federation is banning trans women from competing until a review is made
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12 days ago+28 28 0Jamais vu: the science behind eerie opposite of déjà vu
Ever looked at a familiar face or word and found it suddenly unusual or unknown? You may have had a case of jamais vu.
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Current Event
13 days ago+32 32 0Australian uni student invents electric motor to convert petrol and diesel cars into hybrids
This unique electric motor has won a prestigious design award and might be available to buy in the future.
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Review
2 weeks ago+49 49 0I rented a Tesla for a month. It was a giant pain in the a***
A major car rental company was renting Teslas out for about one-third the cost of a petrol car. We figured, how different could it be?
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3 weeks ago+49 49 0Amazing Discovery Claims Elephants Have Specific 'Names' For Each Other
As elephants wander the African savannah, they might keep in touch with relatives by calling out their individual 'names'.